However, therapy can help you make a plan, work on motivation
issues, reduce stress, reduce overworking, increase self care and develop
skills needed to make decisions and follow through with your plan, and other
issues that may be impacting your food choices.

Working with a therapist
can help you customize a plan for you.Sometimes a therapist will help you build a team and use a holistic
approach with psychotherapy to address specific issues in your life and maybe
involve a nutritionist, healthcare provider, trainer, physical therapist, books
to read, movies to watch, etc.

Sometimes there are issues to address around how you support
yourself to face such a big challenge.

Most people suffer from weight issues for 4 reasons:

a)Addiction to sugar

b)Eating too much

c)Needing exercise to use food more efficiently.

d)You may also have a health issue, or be
impacted by a medication you are taking.Alcohol may be a factor.

But is your weight problem really YOUR problem?I highly recommend the movie FED UP to learn the many ways your supermarket and lunchroom has been hijacked to create
a mega-system that makes eating healthy difficult.

The movie FED UP has made me mad and expanded my
perspective. I am angry that our government has given out lies. I am angry that
our schools and stores are filled with vast amounts of horrible food. The movie
is worth watching because it helps you understand how hard the food industry
and government and now our schools are working against you regarding this
issue.

When people come into my office suffering from weight issues
I will say:

The odds are totally
stacked against all of us. I will acknowledge that you are fighting back
against something that has become a powerful machine. I say people suffer from
weight issues for 5 reasons.

Mostly as a therapist, I work with the mind-body-spirit connection. The mind body and spirit are completely impacted by food, exercise,
rest, relaxation, relationships, etc. I
work with these issues all the time, even though no one has a lost a pound from
talking.

People lose weight because they work very hard to fight
against the insane food industry.

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